Google Alerts

The web monitoring tool, to stay up to date

Kommentare: Its limited functionalities help me keep up to date on news of interest to me.

Vorteile:

It is a tool with very basic functions, those necessary to monitor relevant and interesting news.

Nachteile:

Its functions are limited, basically it is limited to reporting Google searches when they happen at the moment.

we are able to conduct our online research & probes in half the time, for twice the results

Kommentare: For a free product, Google Alerts is an extremely powerful service that has allowed us to boost our productivity significantly. Our Grants team used to miss out on more than a few publications of funding opportunities and grant competitions, but that has not been the case since we started using Google Alerts to fish out keywords related to our grants of interest. It has really helped us.

Vorteile:

Google alerts is the simplest business tool to set up, and it comes free of any charges. And one of the features I love most about the service is that the flexibility it gives me in setting up the frequency of alerts and notifications. For less urgent subjects, I am able to avoid the inconvenience or distraction real-time alerts would cause; and for the much more pressing ones, I am able to stay on in sync with developments as they happen.

Nachteile:

Given the increased relevance of social media, I think it would be a great addition if Google Alerts were expanded to cover content from major social media platforms as well, since a great majority of interactions happen there.

Google Alerts works. Google Alerts does the job.

Vorteile:

The ease of use and the ability to keep me on track is worth way more that I pay for!

Nachteile:

I wish more people used it. We have created many users for Google Alerts through our business dealings with them. They see how it works for us and they use it based upon that. Google Alerts works.

No matter how many settings I make, I still don't get notices

Vorteile:

Adding addresses is easy, and adding attendees to your notices is easy

Nachteile:

the alerts are sporadic at times. If I have nothing scheduled, I won't receive notices until I check the google calendar. frustrating

Google Alerts Review

Kommentare: My overall experience with Google Alerts has been good. I have benefitted from getting varied sources of information which I would not have to go and conduct time staking research on.

Vorteile:

Google Alerts keeps me updated with the latest information. Which proves to be useful in my line of work.

Nachteile:

The specific words or search terms used and information shared might not be directly related to my area of expertise. The alerts on specific words at times are not directly relevant to the information I am seeking.